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Chronic pain is an invisible disability. For many people, if they can’t see it, “it doesn’t exist.” As with any form of pain management, different resources or techniques will suit different people. Back pain is the most common reason for disability as related to work and one of the main contributing factors to people missing work. This is a problem that affects men and women equally, and can range from a constant, dull aching sensation to an intense and sudden pain that incapacitates the sufferer. We should not be depressed that the most advanced modern techniques fail to show a single simple focus of brain activity associated with pain. If you suffer persistent pain, however, it may be that you are never completely pain free. Pain signals normally travel from the painful part of the body along thousands of specialised nerve fibres, through the spinal cord, to the brain. However, in some cases (for example, pain after a stroke), damage to the brain or to the spinal cord itself can start the pain sensation. Referrals to pain specialists occur in less than 15% of GP consultations where pain is managed, medications are used in close to 70% of GP consultations. Hobbies and activities may have taken a backseat due to your pain, but it's worth thinking about how to get back to doing things you enjoy. Anything that helps you to focus on things other than your pain is a good form of self-management. When physical stress occurs, such as an injury or accident, our body responds instantly to protect ourselves by activation of the danger/alarm mechanism. Pain may prevent us from injuring a body part even more. If it didn't hurt to walk on a broken leg, a person might keep using it and cause more damage. The aim of treatments such as Prolotherapy is to offer relief and then to enable people to return to previous activity levelsKeeping active & socially involved is often a challenge for people with persistent pain problems. Avoiding social activities can mean others are less likely to invite to future events, which can make it even more difficult to build activity levels. Those who care for someone in pain are involved in a sequence of reactions that can stretch out for very long periods. It begins with fear, which can grow into terror and a sense of catastrophe. The only way to know when someone is in pain is if they tell you. Physical therapy (PT) is care that aims to ease pain and help you move and live better. It is practiced by a professionally trained physical therapist. A physical therapist may create an exercise program that helps to decrease your pain. Moving more may be the last thing you want to do when you’re in pain, but physical therapy can be an important part of pain management. Sometimes electric shock–like pain is constant, but in each short burst there is a beginning, a middle, and an end. By tuning into pain rather than trying to avoid it, sufferers learn to understand personal pain patterns. Stress can take its toll on any aspect of our health, so it will probably come as no surprise that stress often aggravates pain conditions. Pain isn’t just a physical sensation – it has emotional effects too. If you’ve had pain for months or years, it’s not surprising that it can begin to affect your mood and self-confidence. Living with long-term pain is very different from coping with a short spell of pain, especially if the cause of the pain is unclear and standard treatments aren’t helping. When sudden and acute back pain strikes, it can cause intense shooting or stabbing pain that dramatically limits movement. This pain can last anywhere from a few days to weeks. Your body has an in-built recovery system – you just have to help it along. To make it as quick as possible is more about avoiding things we know slow it down. Foot pain is a common accompaniment of advancing age, affecting at least one in four older people. However, management of foot pain is a largely undervalued aspect of geriatric health care, resulting in many older people needlessly enduring chronic foot pain and related disability. People with chronic pain tend to be broad minded when it comes to approaches to managing pain. The ability to withstand pain varies according to mood, personality, and circumstance. In a moment of excitement during an athletic match, an athlete may not notice a severe bruise but is likely to be very aware of the pain after the match, particularly if the team lost. Pain can keep us from doing our best at our job.

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